Antenna help please!

[KC0LTV]

Here are some pictures of my 4228. It was actually supposed to go up on Saturday, but rain and other problems have delayed it until tomorrow. Could you check to make sure everything seems OK with it from the pictures?

The two screens look like they are not joined perfectly, but maybe I'm just hyper about it.

[KC0LTV]

It's up now!

What a pain - me and our warehouse guy did it. 2.5 hrs, three changes of plans, funny that it was so hard. The antenna is now about 4' above the roof or maybe a little under 30' AGL.

There seems to be some minor tropo enhancement tonight - I can see a 3.4 kW translator about 65 miles away with watchable quality, and what might be KXLT Rochester, over 200 miles away on channel 47, or WLAX, on channel 25 at about the same distance, very, very weakly. I'm definitely going to order that pre-amp from Rich.

Hopefully during this summer I will get my tower up and mount the antenna on that. The tower (a crank-up) extends to 40', and the UHF antenna will be the highest mounted. I'm hoping I'll be able to put a 20' mast in there, so the CM will be at about 60' AGL. That should help!